What’s Happening?
Courtenay Little Theatre’s
Christmas Production
Sleeping Beauty: the panto
written & directed by MANDY TULLOCH
Get tickets at:
https://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/sleeping-beauty-a-pantomime/
Join Dame Nanny Hugwell – the palace’s loudest, proudest and most overprotective nanny/housekeeper as she juggles raising the spirited Princess Aurora and her own gentle son Buttons along with her rambunctious triplets. It’s a joyous celebration at the palace until the uninvited and fabulously fierce Maleficent crashes the party and placesa wicked curse on baby Aurora. On her 16th birthday she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and fall into an eternal sleep! Thankfully, the three slightly scatterbrained but well-meaning fairies, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather soften the curse, and Aurora is hidden away in the forest under the watchful eye of Nanny Hugwell and Buttons. Years later, as Aurora blossoms into a brave young woman and Buttons tries and fails to keep up with Royal life, the handsome and kind-hearted Prince Stephan stumbles into their lives. But Maleficent along with her side kick Diablo hasn’t finished her wicked games. With true love, mistaken identities, outrageous costumes, catchy songs, magical mayhem, and possibly a dragon that might just need a hug….will the prince break the curse or will Maleficent have the last laugh! Packed with laughs, love and lashings of panto fun, Sleeping Beauty is the magical adventure the whole family will love ——Oh yes you will!
Get tickets at:
https://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/sleeping-beauty-a-pantomime/
SLEEPING BEAUTY Cast List
Makena Ram – Aurora
Anika Barrias Langhelt – Principal Boy (Prince Philip)
Alex Schwalm – Dame Nanny Hugwell
Halo Phye – Buttons
Lucia Ma – Fairy Flora
Olivia Craig – Fairy Fauna
Yve HOSELTON – Fairy Merriweather
Pamela Tessman – Malificent
Vjeida Boisvert – Fairy GodmotherIan MacLean – King Hubert and Grandfather Victoria Rigdon – Queen Leah
Philip Adam’s – King Stefan
Skye Rigdon – Diablo
Vanessa G. – Odette
Madeleine Thomas – Charity (Older Grandchild)
Ruth Hoselton – Ella (Twin #1)
Sage Rigdon – Poppy (Twin #2)
Janet Sheppard – Baron Von Rothbottom
Selen Tiryarioglu – Court Jester
Jessie Hargreaves – Grunge (Malificent’s Sidekick)
Victor Lutick – Morton (Malificent’s Sidekick plus understudy for Diablo)
Jasmin Rosner – Edna (Queen’s Ladies Maid)
Henry Hoselton, Marshall Lacasse, Lyric Rigdon – Larry, Larry and Larry Castle Triplets (Dame’s Boys)
Alexandra Ma – Young Aurora
Cedar Rigdon – Daisy the Maid
Ensemble – Charlie Norman, Audrey Leung, Isla Ferguson, Ocea Ferguson, Lola Rouzan
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Directors! Call for Proposals
for 2026-2027 Season
If you are interested in directing next season, please view and/or download the following three documents for information and application…
Guideliness for Directing Proposals
Global Majority Explained (Festival Play)
Submission Deadline: Nov. 25, 2025
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Courtenay Little Theatre’s
Spring Production
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Audition Information for Spring Show
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood,
directed by Catherine Hannon.
After a major disaster at a nuclear power plant, Hazel and Robin, nuclear engineers, have retreated to their remote coastal cottage, seeking to re-establish some kind of normal life. Out of the blue, Rose, a fellow scientist whom they haven’t seen for years, turns up. Has she come to rekindle old relationships or is she hiding some darker motive?
“Sly, gripping, darkly funny…This is sci-fi kitted out with real people, real dilemmas, real scope.” –The Times
“Grips compulsively…Genuinely disturbing…Leaves you an abundance of ideas on which to ruminate.” –Guardian
Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, winner of U.K. Writer’s Guild Award for Best New Play. In 2019, writers for The Guardian placed The Children third on a list of the greatest theatrical works since 2000.
Audition Information for The Children:
Auditions will be held at the Studio at the Views. Audition scenes will be available in advance come December.
Friday, Dec 5, 7-8 PM – Info session for interested actors and audition time sign up.
Saturday, Dec 6, 2-4 PM – Individual auditions.
Sunday, Dec 7, 2-4 PM – Callbacks with other actors.
CHARACTERS:
ROSE, HAZEL, ROBIN
All in their 60’s.
All are retired nuclear scientists/engineers.
The play is set on the east coast of England, the characters have British accents.
All are intelligent, witty and self-aware.
HAZEL and ROBIN are married. ROSE is an unmarried old friend and colleague of theirs.
NB: HAZEL and ROSE do yoga together. HAZEL, ROBIN and ROSE do a choreographed dance sequence. ROBIN briefly rides a tricycle. The characters drink wine throughout much of the play.
There is some kissing, hugging, and a slap.
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Script Library
The revised Script Library List is now available.
CLICK HERE to view.
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CLT Sponsors a Playwriting Initiative
Have you got a plot outline lurking at the back of your mind? Is it set in the Comox Valley? Could it be developed into a one act play? If so, then Courtenay Little Theatre has a challenge for you!
We’re very pleased to let you know ‘Tales from the Comox Valley’ drew 15 submissions across many different stories, styles, and eras – a clear signal of emerging interest and talent!
We are moving on to the selection process.
KEY DATES:
• Expressions of Interest Due: September 15, 2025
(1–2 pages outlining your idea, characters, setting, and approach)
• Selection of Proposals to proceed to full scripts, and Feedback: by November 1, 2025
• Invited Full Scripts Due: January 31, 2026
• Workshop Period: March–May 2026
• Performances: Fall 2026
For submissions and questions, please email to: info@courtenaylittletheatre.com
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Next Board Meeting
Sunday, November 10th, 2025 at 7pm
at The Studio at the Views
Comox Ave, Courtenay, BC
CLT Christmas Party
Saturday, Dec. 6th, 2025 at 6:00pm
The Studio at the Views
(Old St Joseph’s Hospital, Comox, BC)
Email info@courtenaylittletheatre.com
We look forward to seeing you there!
PLAY CLUB
2025-2026
FALL/WINTER PLAY CLUB READINGS
Hi Everyone,
Mark your calendars, we have three very interesting plays to explore for our fall/winter Play Club!
All readings are Sundays, 2-4 at The Studio at the Views, accessed via the old hospital parking lot in Comox, on Comox Ave.
Readings are followed by a discussion and written feedback. ALL WELCOME.
If you are interested in being a presenter or reader in forthcoming Play Club readings please contact Catherine Hannon c/o info@courtenaylittletheatre.com to be added to our roster.
Oct 19 – The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa Fasthorse, presented by Catherine Hannon.
“Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in Larissa FastHorse’s wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally woke teaching artists scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.” (Concord Theatricals
Nov 16 – Skylight by David Hare, presented by Ray Garford.
“David Hare’s intensely clear-sighted and compassionate play, about reconnected lovers who consider resurrecting their relationship.” (Concord Theatricals)
Dec 14 – The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis, presented by Erin Malin.
“Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible’s most notorious sinner.” (Amazon.ca)
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Courtenay Little Theatre respectfully acknowledges that the land we gather on is on the
Unceded Traditional Territory of the K’ómoks First Nation, the traditional keepers of this land.